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Luis Alberto Spinetta is more than an Argentine artist. Fellow countrymen like to see him as a legend because his music is considered the soundtrack to their lives.
For the last 30 years, Spinetta has mutated as many times as you can imagine for a man who has fronted bands all his musical life. Aside from being the main force behind altpop band Almendra, blues-rock trio Pescado Rabioso, delicate pop band Invisible, jazzy groups Banda Spinetta and Spinetta Jade, and Nineties experimental trio Los Socios del Desierto, he has released more than a dozen solo albums. His trademark signature is witty, poetic lyrics and a defiant attitude.
Appropriately, the local Argentinean Consulate will hand Spinetta a Legend Award during the fifth annual Argentine Festival. “I’d like to pick this one up because it will give me the opportunity to perform a new song, and try to make people feel the same way they felt with [his classic] ‘Muchacha,'” he says. Simply put, Spinetta is God, not Clapton.
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